Legal Opinion
Lewis v. Superior Court
California Court of Appeal
Decided January 23, 1978No. Civ. 17031PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
REYNOSO, J.
Petitioner Jerome R. Lewis, an attorney, is a defendant in a legal malpractice suit brought against him by real party in interest Virginia A. Sullivan. For convenience and consistency we shall refer to the parties as defendant and plaintiff respectively.
Defendant seeks a writ of mandate after the Sacramento Superior Court denied his motion for summary judgment, He contends that as a matter of law plaintiff cannot establish damages as the result of his failure to claim her husband’s military pension as community property in her dissolution action. Defendant asserts that since…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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3Cited by16 opinions
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